SZNS SERIES 1: Summer by Maria Writes (books for men to read txt) 📗

roll on her cheeks. Now she regretted running away, if only she was smart enough to think that Jesse's side should also be heard. But no, she just listened to what her mind is telling her and shut herself of the world.

Now, she doesn't feel like going to class. She'll just stay in her room and locked herself until tomorrow. She tried, but she's too late. Jesse doesn't want anything to do with her anymore. If only she didn't listen to what her mind is telling her. Chloe and Jesse should have been happy by now.

At the boarding house, some of her friends at the living room saw her crying. She can't help herself so she rushed towards them and cried her heart out. She thinks this is the first time that they saw her be weak. Usually, it's always her who's catching them when they fall and now it's the other way around. Well, we all have our bad day. Except for her, it's a month.

She's in Rebeca's arms. Aside from Caroline, Rebeca is the only one who knows what's happening with her and Jesse in full details while the rest of their friends knows the parts that she allows them to know.

"Hey, what happened? Are you okay? Is it Jesse, he was here earlier packing his stuff? Did you guys talk already?"

Rebeca asked while fixing her hair. She shook her head and didn't say a thing. It'll just make everything worst.

Chloe should not give up. She has a strong feeling that the note she received earlier is from Jesse, that is her last straw. Her last hurrah. If she failed tomorrow then she has no choice but to give up and open a new chapter of her life.

If she fails tomorrow, she will forget all about it. She'll make sure of it. Chloe will just focus on the life waiting for her in Paris. Surely, she'll found someone much better there.

Someone who's love her more than Jesse did, if he really did.

All the crying she did tired her that she didn't realized that she fell asleep on the living room. The house is very quiet and all the lights are off. She took her phone to use it as her flashlight and head up to her room. But before she went in, she walks towards Jesse's room to see if he was there.

His room is empty, like literally empty. She walked to the bed and surprised to see all of her letters there. All of them are already opened. She took the one that she wrote earlier from her purse and place it with the opened envelopes. Chloe is hoping that Jesse will see it when he gets back here.

It seems like he's already starting to move out. Move of his things are nowhere to be found. The only thing left on his room are his books, his computer, and his guitar. She moved towards his desk and reached for her guitar. There was a bit of dust on it, maybe because it's been a long time since Jesse used it. She can still remember the first time he played the guitar for her.

'You can play?' she asked Jesse when she saw a guitar on the corner of his room. It looked old but it still works. She's hopeless when it comes to playing the guitar. 

Jesse took the guitar from her and started playing some tunes. 'My mother taught me how to play the guitar. I was five that time if I am not mistaken. Then after I mastered the guitar, she taught me how to play the piano.' 

He looked so relax while he strums the guitar. Then after a few seconds, he started singing. She really loves his voice when he sings. Like he did during the auditions. He has his eyes closed as he strums the guitar. Wow, how can one play the guitar without even looking at the strings?

'What's this?' she asked when she saw something written on the back of the guitar. Jesse filled it and revealed what was written. It was a signature with his mother's name under it. It was fading a bit.

 

Maybe because it the guitar was very old. 

'It's my mother's signature. She did this before she gave this guitar to me. This was her first guitar, then she passed it on to me.' Jesse said while looking at her mother's handwriting behind the guitar. 

Chloe heard a noise from downstairs so she quickly went out of Jesse's room and ran to hers. She took a peek on her slightly opened door to see who made the noise downstairs. It was Jesse, he went towards his room. She closed her door and went to take a bath.

In the bathroom, she let herself submerge in the warm water until she can't breathe. Her lungs are craving for air yet she still stayed under the water, with her eyes close, her mind clear with thoughts and her hands slowly losing its grip from the side of the tub.

With all the things she'd been through today and for the past month, all she just wanted to do now is vanish from the face of this earth. Yet, she knows she cannot do that, she can't just die because of a heartbreak. But she wants the pain to stop, she wants the pain to just leave her alone. She wants to feel numb of what happened.

She stood up from the tub and dried her body. After that she went to bed and forced herself to sleep. Hoping that there's no nightmare to disturb her this time. But she was mistaken, flashes of what happened earlier plagued her sleep that made her up all night. Again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER 24:

So, It Was